April 19: “Two Cardenios: Cervantes and Shakespeare”
They both died the same day, Shakespeare and Cervantes, April 23 1616. The ties are tighter. Shakespeare contributed to a play based on a Cervantes story, The History of Cardenio. With a reconstruction of that play receiving its North American premiere at IUPUI hear about the relations between these two literary giants.
When: Thursday April 19, 5:30 pm
Where: IUPUI Campus Center Theatre
Free and open to all
Steven Wagschal is Associate Professor of Spanish at Indiana University (Bloomington), and author of The Literature of Jealousy in the Age of Cervantes. He has also published essays on Cervantes, Calderon, Lope de Vega, and Góngora. Dr Wagschal will discuss the literary relationship between Cervantes (the greatest author of the Spanish Golden Age) and Shakespeare (the greatest author of the English Renaissance). Cervantes and Shakespeare were contemporaries, who died on the same date in 1616.
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[...] April 19: “Two Cardenios: Cervantes and Shakespeare” They both died the same day, Shakespeare and Cervantes, April 23 1616. The ties are tighter. Shakespeare contributed to a play based on a Cervantes story, The History of Cardenio. With a reconstruction of that play receiving its North American premiere at IUPUI hear about the relations between these two literary giants. [...]
[...] April 19: “Two Cardenios: Cervantes and Shakespeare” They both died the same day, Shakespeare and Cervantes, April 23 1616. The ties are tighter. Shakespeare contributed to a play based on a Cervantes story, The History of Cardenio. With a reconstruction of that play receiving its North American premiere at IUPUI hear about the relations between these two literary giants. [...]